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Theses from 2020
Kneeling for Social Justice: Epistemologies of Ignorance, Schemas, and Frames on Twitter, Robert J. Rice
"Full of Light and Fire": John Brown in Springfield, Louis J. Rocco Jr.
Does the Quality of a Reporting Regime Affect the Level of Earnings Management? – An Empirical Study Based on Indian Companies Act, 2013, Hem Vijay Shah
Comfort Food, Sarah A. Shapiro
Limited Viewpoints: The Implementation of Multimodal Constructs in an ELL Model Curriculum Unit, Deborah A. Smith
How Much Does a Memory Weigh, Nicholas Snow
Development of Methods to Examine Electron Glass Models, Eric J. Steele
Accounting for Equity in Climate Adaptation Planning: A Quantitative Assessment of Co-Benefits for Green Infrastructure, Hannah M. Stroud
The Psychogram, Nathaniel M. Sullivan
“We May Have Profitable Commerce And Trade Together”: An Analysis of 17th-Century Ceramics in Plymouth Colony, Elizabeth G. Tarulis
Washed Away: Native American Representation in Oklahoma Museums and High Schools, 2000 – 2020, Catherine E. Thompson
The Effects of High Intensity Interval Training on Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Dynamics in Diet-Induced Obese Mice, James B. Tincknell
Keeper, Christina C. Towers
Unprotected Hex, Nicholas B. Trefonides
Listening to Greater Boston's Climate Change Concerns, Anna I. Valdez
The Thing of It Is, Andria J. Warren
The Occurrence of Compound Events in Rhode Island and their Associated Damage Costs, Erika D. Welch
Domestic Public Opinion on EU Integration and Investment by China in the Western Balkans, Brandon Wilcox
Brother Like That, Jessamyn M.L. Wolff
Small Scale Ironmaking in Viking Age Skagafjörður, North Iceland, Nicholas Zeitlin
Development of Environmentally Benign Reductive Methods through Metal-Al-Water Facilitated Hydrogenolysis, Naranchimeg Zorigt
Theses from 2019
Appraisals of Trust Development within the Therapist-Client Relationship: Impacts on Client Retention in a Hypothetical First Session of Therapy, Lorraine U. Alire
Revelation and Concealment; The Words and World of Omar ibn Said, David Gabriel Babaian
Anabasis Aquilonos: The Interplay of Exemplarity and Scientific Historiography in B.H. Liddell Hart’s A Greater than Napoleon: Scipio Africanus, Daniel T. Barbre
Physical, Chemical, and Biological Assessment of Dam Removal and Land Use Land Cover Affects in the Mill River System, Massachusetts, Delilah M. Bethel
Performance Pedagogy and Skeletal Scripts: Shakespeare in the College English Classroom, Mary Booth
Sparse Statistical Learning Techniques for Analysis of High-Dimentional Gene Expression Data, Mehdi Borji
Comales and Colonialism: An Analysis of Cuisine and Ceramics on a 17th-Century New Mexican Estancia, Adam C. Brinkman
The Language of the Herodians: An Analysis of Herodian Material Culture, Alexander J. D'Amore
Cultures and Comfort: A Study of Personal Adornment at Avery's Rest, Julianne Danna
Ernesto Bodhi, Your Best Isn’t Good Enough, Jose F. Diaz
The Neoliberal State as an Apparatus of Harm: Towards a Decolonial Materialist Feminism in Bolivia, Taylor M. Doherty
Examining Associations Between the Built Environment and Bike Share Use: A Dynamic Spatial Approach, Benjamin G. Ethier
A Heavy Burden: Associations Between Sexual Minority Status, Mental Health, and BMI in Women, Alison E. A. Goldblatt
Daltonien is a Novel Gene that Regulates the Hippo Tumor Suppressor Pathway in the Drosophila Eye, Jessica A. Gosselin
Set in Stone: Recontextualizing the Lithic Assemblage of a Seventeenth-Century Storage Cellar in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Anna M. Greco
Working Memory and Mindfulness in an RCT of ABBT and AR, Anna M. Hall
Exploring the Social and Environmental Conditions of 17th-Century Estancias in New Mexico, Stephanie Hallinan
Racial Microaggression Distress and Depression among Black Americans: Examining the Roles of Racial Identity Importance, Social Support, and Gender, Shannon M. Hughley
The Role of the International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO) in Humanitarian Intervention – A Case Study of the IFRC Cash Transfer Program in Malawi, Olabode George Igandan
The Tailor RNA-Seq Comparative Analysis Pipeline: A De Novo Disease Biomarker Discovery Workflow that Facilitates High Performance Computing Cluster Use, Andrew S. Judell
Somatic, Shannon L. Kafka
Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy on Google Cloud Platform Using the Inception Framework, Sonica Kalmangi
Human Rights and Justice Rights Approaches to Gender-Based Violence (GBV): The Case of Kenya’s Sexual Offenses Act (KSOA), Maryanne W. Kamunya
Blood Feud, Krisela Karaja
Women's Security and Empowerment in the Context of Forced Displacement: A Case Study of Humanitarian Policies for Syrian Refugee Women in Turkey, Kinga Henryka Karlowska
Exploring Constructive Resilience: A Qualitative Investigation of the Bahá’i Response to Oppression, Mark Kazemzadeh
The Relationship Between Enjoyment and Physical Activity During a Community Based Youth Physical Activity Program, Shelby A. Keye
Land of Plenty: A Short Novel, Alison K. Lanier
Multiperspectivity through Alternative History in the Classroom, Anggita Parameswari Latif
Permission to Speak, Lena M. Marecki
UAS-Based Quantification of Post-Storm Geomorphic Change to a Natural Beach-Dune System, Samantha J. McFarland
Practicing My Vampire Slayer Moves, But I Literally Just Woke Up, Jessica Melendy
Many-Particle Quantum Thermal Machines, Doha Mesnaoui
Body Mechanics, Emily Moeck
Bridges, Kieran Moriarty
Not Much Choice: How Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joined Armed Groups and Were Indoctrinated, Prince De Makele Makele Mounguembou
Detecting Schizophrenia Through Eye Movement Analysis Using Artificial Neural Networks, Manish R. Mourya
Eat This in Remembrance: The Zooarchaeology of Secular and Religious Sites in 17th-Century New Mexico, Ana C. Opishinski
Social Movements and Charitable Dress: An Examination of 19th Century Adornment at the Industrial School for Girls in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Madelaine A. Penney
Potters' Norms: Examining the Social Organization of Ceramic Production of Panamanian Majolica and Criolla Wares in Panama la Vieja (1519-1673), Jean-Sebastien Pourcelot
Climate Change Impacts on Phosphorus Loads in the Upper and Middle Charles River Watershed with HSPF Modeling, Meagan Riley
Regional Variation in Grass, Sedge, and Cereal Cultivation During the Viking Age in Skagafjörður, North Iceland, Melissa M. Ritchey
Off The Farm: An Evaluation Of Non-Farm Earnings And Employment On Poverty Alleviation In Rural Nicaragua, Magaly Vanessa Saenz Somarriba
Anatomy of an American House, Brooke Schifano
Parent-Reported Lifestyle Correlates of Health-Related Quality of Life in Children Aged 8-12 Years with Intellectual Disabilities, Gabrielle C. Trudeau
One Shot Learning for Indoor Navigation, Vikram Venkatesh Gopalan
Characterization of Nonlinear Properties of New Porphyrins Using Optical and Photoacoustic Z-Scan Techniques, Shengwei Wang
Language Learning and ADA: An Observation of d/Deaf Adults and Their Interpreters in ESL Classrooms, Katharine M. Ward
Spectroscopic Investigation and Identification of the 1-Vinylpropargyl Radical and the 1-Ethynylcyclopenten-1-yl Radical, Meredith Lair Ward
Environments Explored: An In-Depth Analysis of Soil Movement in Northern Iceland, Lauren Welch O'Connor
Theses from 2018
From Symbionts to Pathogens: Interactions within the Amphibian Skin Mucosome, Kelly L. Barnhart
Stochastic Modeling of Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in the Limit of Strong Interactions, Robert Barr
Prisoner's Cinema, Zachary C. Bond
The Charge of Deserting Their Sphere: The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and Women’s Place in the Abolitionist Movement, Megan Irene Brady
“There are Among the Coloured People of this Place Remains of the Nantucket Indians:” Identity through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Victoria Anne Cacchione
Investigating the Impact of Extracellular Matrix Rigidity on Growth and Invasive Behavior in 3D Pancreatic Tumor Modules, Andrew Caide
Competing Goals: The Boston Teachers Union and the Boston Busing Crisis, Matthew R. Clark
Healing from Heterosexism Through Expressive Writing, Kathleen M. Collins
An Analysis of Form and Function of Ceramic Rim Sherds from LA 20,000, A 17th Century Estancia Outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, Caitlin M. Connick
InspiroBot Says: The Singularity Is Invisible in a Mirror, Mary Coons
Community Through Consumption: The Role of Food in African American Cultural Formation in the 18th Century Chesapeake, Alexandra Crowder
Evaluation of Sub-Lethal PDT Dose-Response in Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Isha Desai
Development of Environmentally Benign Protocols for the Performance of Hydrogenation, Oxidative Cleavage and N-Hydroxyalkylation, Clifford James Ellstrom
War, Public Outrage, and Partisanship: Congressional Responses to Presidential Military Overreach, William G. Foster-Nolan
"The Right to Play" The Establishment of Playgrounds in the American City, Kyle James Fritch
Good Girls Gone Bad: Interpreting the White Slavery Scare As A Response To Changing Women's Roles in the Progressive Era, Rachael Gorski
Clients’ Critical Experiences in Psychotherapy: Initial Measure Development, Lauren M. Grabowski
Palynological Investigations of Agropastoralism and Ecological Change at LA 20,000, New Mexico, Anya Gruber
Comparisons of Mitochondrial Quality Control in Primary Myotubes from Lean, Severely Obese Non-Diabetic, and Severely Obese Type 2 Diabetic Humans, Anders E. Gundersen
Innocent Victors: Atomic Identity at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Kathryn Leann Harris
Hydropower in the Decarbonized Mauritian Grid: A Prospective Study, Benjamin M. Havumaki
A Neural Network Model for Classifying Bubble-Based Instructor Evaluations, and an Accompanying Web Portal, Jason Held